Liberal Imperialism in Germany : : Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884 / / Matthew P. Fitzpatrick.
In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of Germ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in German History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: A Liberal Empire for a Liberal Nation
- 1. National Unifi cation and Overseas Expansion at the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1848–1849
- 2. Mythopoesis—Imperialism as Nationalism
- Part II: Liberal Imperialism in the “Post-Liberal” Era
- 3. Informal Empire and Private Sector Imperialism, 1849–1884
- 4. Bürgerlich Agency and the World of the Verein, 1849–1884
- 5. Bismarck and the Sociopolitical Context of the Colonial “Umschwung”
- Part III: Th e Texts of Imperialism
- 6. Expansionist Agitation after 1849
- 7. Geography and Anthropology in the Service of Imperialism
- 8. Popular Culture and the Transmission of Imperialist Values
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index